Morgalis (1-2) walked six batters, but allowed only three hits in what was, by far, his best performance of the season to earn his first win of the year.

“He needed a game like that,” Hendricks said. “He had a couple of tough draws against Texas Tech and Louisiana-Lafayette, and he needed a game like that to get his confidence up. But I am very proud of the way he went out there. All you can ask is for him to keep us in the game, and he did a lot more than that.”

The Crimson jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on an RBI single by Hendricks in the first, and the first baseman drove in the game’s only other run on a sacrifice fly in the sixth.

The first inning single gave Hendricks a school-record streak of 22 consecutive games in which he had recorded a hit, a streak that began on April 15, 2003 against Boston College.

The streak broke the record set by Brian Ralph, who had a 21-game hit streak in 1998, but ended with a hitless performance against Princeton the next day.

“It’s definitely something I’m proud of,” Hendricks said. “The day after my dad told me about it, though, I went out there and went 0-for-3, but hopefully I got another [hit streak] started [today].”

Both Hendricks and Hale finished the game 2-for-3, and Hale also scored a run. Salsgiver had the Crimson’s only other hit off of Cornell ace Dan Baysinger (0-2), who tossed eight innings of five-hit baseball before being relieved by Blake Hamilton, who threw a perfect ninth.

CORNELL 7, HARVARD 3

The Big Red jumped out to a 5-0 lead off of sophomore starting pitcher Matt Brunnig and held on for a 7-3 win over Harvard in what was the Ivy opener for both teams Saturday.

Brunnig (1-3) was relieved by Jason Brown, who was stellar in relief, allowing only one earned run over the final five innings, but the damage was already done.

Hendricks was the only Crimson hitter to post multiple hits, going 2-for-3 at the plate.

Herrmann had a double and two RBI and Farkes singled and scored a run for the Crimson.

—Staff writer Lande A. Spottswood can be reached at spottsw@fas.harvard.edu.